So today instead of doing some cooking i decided to concentrate on electronics. There have been a couple projects kicking around in my head but before i could do any of them i had to set up my new soldering iron and helping hands.
The first thing i have been working on is a fan to vent away the solder smoke while i work. This started as an instructable addition to the helping hands project that i have but my fans were much to heavy for the arms. Instead i decided to the and make a mini vacuum system using the fan.
I attached the fan to a funnel shared piece of plastic (its actually a platic martini glass from the dollar store) and then a long hose to the funnel in the hopes of having a vacuum.
To make everything fit together i used some scrap cardboard and hot glued it all.
Once everything was glued together it was time to hook up a power plug to the fan and see how kuch suction i got. Thankfully i had a random 12v power pkug floating around and my fan required 12V.
After some soldering confusion in which i soldered the ground lead to the wrong wire on the fan I was good to test...
Sadly the project was a flop. Somewhere between the fan and the end of the 10 ft tube i was using as a hose i lost all suction power. :( oh well. It did give me a chance to use ky soldering iron fir the first time as well as my helping hands.
The soldering iron is working great. It heats up quickly and for the first time i am able to heat the joint and have the solder flow in instead of having to heat the solder and try to glob it on.
The helping hands on the ither hand is a little less than perfect. I found it evry difficult to line up the hands together as the tubing is ver stiff and doesnt like to mive small amounts. As this is my first set of helping hands ever i dont know if this is a common problem or something specific to using the tubing for the arms. Either way the hands are much better than trying to grow a thrid or fourth hand to hold things.
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